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This ad featuring one Alexandria Morgan has apparently been banned (by whom and from what we know not). It’s for the Tom Tom Runner Cardio (another one of those) and has proved very popular on YouTube with over 500,000 hits ...

Wieden+Kennedy London recently won the global ad account for Brown-Forman’s Chambord black raspberry liqueur and it’s gone all Frrrench for the debut campaign, ‘#becausenoreason.’ Global marketing director Alexander Sneen says: “We are excited to bring a step change to Chambord ...

Which mental images spring to mind when you hear the word “Nordic”? Possibly polar bears (false) or reindeer (granted, somewhat true). Or melancholic movies, hard-to-assemble minimalist furniture and lycra’d men with rifles on narrow skis (all very true)? Well, whatever ...

Surfing has a certain existential quality that plays well in ads (think Guinness) and Samsung has teamed up with the Association of Surfing Professionals (blimey, we’re all professionals these days – apart from hacks) ahead of the new US Open ...

It’s not that long ago that Omnicom and Publicis Groupe were trying to arrange a $35bn merger. Perhaps it’s just as well they failed because the two giant companies seem to occupying not just different domiciles but different universes. Publicis ...

TBWA Media Arts Lab has just produced a nice new TV ad for the Macbook Air featuring cartoon stickers for ‘the notebook people love.’ But it’s gone. Has Apple, which grows more Stasi-like by the day, decided it’s not going ...

The shock news coming from Tesco this week – yet another profit warning and a revolving door at CEO level – reinforces previous comments in MAA on the huge challenges facing juggernaut bricks and mortar brands in a changing world. ...

Speak to any young person getting into the marketing industry for the first time and they’ll all identify the same frustration. “It just takes forever to do anything.” Ah, process. Man’s best friend and worst enemy. We all want to ...

Ogilvy & Mather is on a fearsome roll at the moment, displacing BBDO as the world’s most awarded network and even helping Unilever’s Dave Lewis become the new CEO of Tesco thanks to its highly successful Dove personal care campaigns. ...

So what sort of shape is Publicis Groupe in following the collapse of its mooted merger with Omnicom? Not very good it would appear from its half-year results, battered by a weak second quarter in which it showed organic growth ...